The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-29
Generalities.

King kalakaua's salary has been reduced by
the Hawaiian Legislature.
There are thirty-eight widows of revolution
airy soldiers OH the pension lists.
Robert Garrett, now in San Francisco, has
decided to go Oh trip around the world.
The Pope has received among his jubilee gifts
about fifty thousand bottles of champagne.
! Gov. Stevenson of Nevada is reported to have
disposed of his property in California for ST.
100000.
| 1t is said that President Garnet will pardon
all political prisoners in France on the first of
January.
The great bulk of the worlds supply of pen
cil-Wood comes from the swamp lands of Levy
County, Fla.
A fanatic at Selma, Ala, called for human
sacrifice. and negro woman offering herself
he killed her.
Dispatches received from the Congo make no
mention of Stanley. and anxiety is fe.t concern
ing his safety.
The eN-Empress Eugene is reported to be
in excellent health. with the cXcep tion of some
rheumatic pains.
Some $4,000 has been pledged annually to
help the American Protective Tariff League
carry on its work.
New York dairymen in session IN Middle
town. petitioned Congress not to change the
Oleomargarinc act.
some influential London physicians have
started movement TO write prescriptions in
English instead of Latin.
\ cyclone i'll Indian Territory DESTROYED a
large amount of property and killed and niur-
Ell a number of people.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is reported TO
have wen both popularity and substantial sue
cess as a school teacher
Germany has recently celebrated the ccnten-
NAL anniversary of the birth of Nicholas Dreysc,
! inventor of the neede-@un.
Or. Parker has hidden America farewell. He
knows more about us than he did when he came
over. SO DO we about him.
Wong All Hun was sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment il san Francisco for importing
Chinese girls for immoral purp----.
Secretary F,irchilcl has recommended the ai'-
preparation of $3.50 900 for the establishment
of a marine hospital in New York.
President Cleveland is said 20 he worth about
Slo0,000. much of which is invested in real
estate that is rapidly increasing in value.
Whittier. the octogenarian poet. received
many national tributes of affection on the
ca>ion Of his eiylltieth birthday Dec. 18th.
George {. Jones, the Observation-Disclosures lead
CT, thinks Il period of alarm in financial circles
has resulted from the Presidents message.
General y. Z. Banks has been appointed
Marshal al interim of the Massachusetts dis
trict pending the appointment of his successor.
The Naval Board has accepted Mr.. J. VI.
Forbe>'s offer of the use Of his yacht Sheer
water to experiment with the BecNe boiler.
The report that Jay-Eye->ee WAS broken
dowl turns out to he incorrect. His owner
thinks he will be :; better horse ne ri year then
ever.
Mrs Iraiil b. Humphrey. vino died lately
Al Norfolk, Ct. begucathel 100000 for chart
table purposes. including $4,000 to Yale Col
le@e.
The Bahyionan expedition under the drcc-
tion 81 the University of Pennsylvania will
start from Philadelphia about the first OF the
year.
Burglars in Kentucky. in order to rob Il store.
Gagged and maltreated man eighty years old
and chokod his sister. aged seYerty->iN to
death
A dispatch from Vienna says it is SEMI
officially stated that the Cabinet shares in the
belief that good relations with Russia vii! he
maintained.
1t is said that the output CT anthracite coal
this year will be the largest Of any year i'll
the history of the trade. 1t is estimated at
"a. 600 900 tons.
The st. John On. 3D. Globe is out i'll an ear
nest editorial urging that Canada be annexed
10 the | nted States and thus avoid all strife
over the fisheries.
Hon. A. W. Mcclellan. postmaster general of
Canada, is in Washington 10 advocate the es
t1I If n I.,i ltatWp
the two countries.
North Carolina republicans decide to hold
their next State convention on May %. 1SSS.
\ correspondent says the republicans will sure
" carry the state EcNt fall.
Judge Powers of Bennington. VT. does not
believe in naturalizing Nihi>ts. Anarchists or
Socialists. and questioned three applicants for
citizenship recently very sharply.
In 1885 the Tonnage Of vessels entering in
wards and outward> at British ports was s.
100000 tons: in 1870 it was 14.4S9,Oo0 tons;
and in lSSj it was 64.2S1 900 tons.
The American Federation of Labor met in
Convention at Baltimore. Seventy delegates
Were present. Rights of Labor were charar-
terizet as the foes of trades unions.
Judge sage refused TO pass Il cumulative sen
tenee on Harper. the Fidelity Bank wrecker.
II he had done 50 Harper would have gone to
the penientiary for no less than 80 years.
Senator Chandler has introduced bill pre-
viding for the appointment OF Supervisors of
Congressional elections in Southern States. with
the View Of giving colorcl men fair ballot.
There are nine Harvard graduates in the
Fiftieth Congress. They are Senators IIoar
and Pasco and Representatives Hayden. Long.
Perry. Adams. Lodge. Burnett and Belmont.
One of The schemes to annoy Mr.. Randall
and curtail his power is to change the House
rules to cripple the Committee on APP
preparations, of which Randall is the Chair,
man.
The building OF summer hotels near Boston
gives employment to about five thousand car
penters this winter. New hotels of fashionable
design are going up all along the north AMI
south shores.
The European situation is becoming more
strained. While Austria. Russia and Germany
declare themselves DESTROYS of peace, they all
agree that they should prepare for war. and
are doing 50.
+. l.. Harper. the cN-f;anker of Cincinnati.
has 'lonned the stripes in the Ohio PenittntiarS
but will retain his hair and moustache for i
time. lie has been made a clerk in the office of
the secretary.
d. DeCo>tro x Co. shipping and commi.-
sion merchants of New York who tliI a larrt-
'Nptlu ttIltldl -AtiltIlfdli l'il>lfltNS IiAt
>u>pended liabilities from thrco-fouTths to one
million dollars.
Congressman John +. Russell of Mas>aclil-
sets has made sensation in Washington by
appearing in Il blui>h-@ray overcoat made of
wool which grew Oh his own sheep ut his
Worcester farm.
Pratt, of astral oil fame, has founded tech
nical school for Brooklyn. The building cost
100000. Mr.. Pratt also gave about year
ago 100000 to the Adelphi 4leadamy of Brock